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Message-ID: <20130320233723.GA4156@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:37:23 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Harald Arnesen <skogtun.linux@...il.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@...ers.com>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Imre Deak <imre.deak@...el.com>,
	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dummy-irq: introduce a dummy IRQ handler driver (was Re:
 gm45 intel gfx can generate non-MSI irq# in MSI mode (was Re: [PATCH]
 drm/i915: stop using GMBUS IRQs on Gen4 chips (was Re: [3.9-rc1] irq 16:
 nobody cared (was [3.9-rc1] very poor interrupt respo))

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:21:21AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> > > Ok, so how about this?
> > > Daniel, is it enough to make the problem appear on your system (by 
> > > building this into the kernel and booting with dummy-irq.irq=16)?
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> > > Subject: [PATCH] dummy-irq: introduce a dummy IRQ handler driver
> > > 
> > > This module accepts a single 'irq' parameter, which it should register for.
> > > 
> > > Its sole purpose is to help with debugging of IRQ sharing problems, by
> > > force-enabling IRQ that would otherwise be disabled.
> > > 
> > > Suggested-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> > 
> > This is just what I was thinking of.  Three extremely minor 
> > suggestions...
> 
> Thanks Alan. Updated version below.
> 
> Greg, willing to merge this simple debugging facility?

Yes, I'll take it, give me a few days to catch up with my pending queue,
don't worry, it's not lost.

greg k-h
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